Day 01 USA – St. Petersburg
Board an international flight bound for Russia.  Spend the night aboard as we cross the Atlantic to Russia.
 
Day 02 Arrive – St. Petersburg
Upon you arrival in St. Petersburg an Amiri travel representative will meet and assist you in transferring to the hotel.
 
Day 03 – St. Petersburg                    ( B )                              
Hermitage, Peter and Paul Fortress, Isaac Cathedral: After breakfast, departure from the hotel with an English –speaking guide who will assist you for sightseeing around St. Petersburg.  You will see such world famous sights as the Hermitage Museum, the former Winter Palace and now the treasure house of fine and applied arts, the former residence of Russian Tsars, the Hermitage is beautifully decorated with paintings and sculptures and housing almost three million exhibits. We then visit Peter and Paul Fortress, an outstanding architectural monument and the burial place of Russian Romanov Czars. The city’s first building once a political prison in Tsarist Russia, the cathedral of Saint Peter and Paul was a Burial Place of the Russian Tsars starting from Peter the Great.  You will also enjoy most interesting architectural monument St. Isaac’s Cathedral designed by the outstanding architect Auguste Montferand in the 19th Century with unique works of art inside paintings, sculptures and mosaic compositions.
 
Day 04 – St. Petersburg                       ( B )
Grand Palace, Nevsky Avenue: After breakfast you will enjoy an excursion to Peterhof (Grand Palace) the former summer Palace of the Czars.  Peter the Great built a series of palaces to the west of St. Petersburg to rival Versailles in Paris.  The combined ensemble is known as Peterhof (Peter’s Palace).  Fountains, the Grand Cascade and Water Avenue were partly engineered by Peter himself and are an important part of Peterhof’s charm.In the afternoon visit Nevsky Avenue, St. Petersburg’s Champs-Elysées and walk this famous shopping street and view the magnificent mosaic covered Cathedral of the Savior. 
 

Day 05 – St. Petersburg                    ( B )
Pushkin Palace and Park: In the afternoon visit Pushkin town, Catherine the Great’s Palace and park, located 12 miles away from St. Petersburg, almost razed to the ground during the Nazi occupation, the Palace is being restored since 1944. The restoration works are still underway, including the famous Amber Room looted by Fascists and lost somewhere at the German border.
 
Day 06 – St. Petersburg – Moscow  ( B )
After breakfast you check out and transfer to the airport and fly to Moscow the capital city of Russia, where an Amiri Travel representative will guide you to your hotel.
Options  in St. Petersburg: * A riverboat cruise *Maryinsky or Aleksandryisky ballet performances *Folk show in Palace * Night Disco
 

Day 07 – Moscow                              ( B )
Sparrow Hills, Moscow University, Tretyakov Gallery: After a hearty breakfast your city tour includes famous Sparrow hills (Lenin’s hills) the highest point of Moscow where you’ll see the panorama of the city, and Moscow University, main streets, and squares, and many monuments dedicated to famous artists and political leaders. At the Tretyakov Gallery, the Russian national art museum in Moscow, you will see the incomparable wealth of Ancient Russian art and stunning paintings from the 14th to the 19th centuries.
 
Day 08 – Moscow                              ( B )
Kremlin, Red Square, Lenin’s Tomb, St. Basil’Cathedral, Gum Dept Store: After breakfast this morning we explore the Kremlin, and Cathedrals Square, to visit the ancient territory of the heart of Moscow, where Russian Tsars were crowned. You will see interesting famous Palaces, and Red Square, a central square of the capital. You will visit Lenin’s Tomb and St. Basil’Cathedral built in the 16th century, and then    you    will    visit    the    historic Gum
 
department store. Walk along the Old Arbat street (famous shopping site) where tourists can find great bargains on souvenirs. Finally we’ll go to the Moscow Metro and see the most unique stations decorated in marble, granite, and chandeliers during Stalin’s era.
 
Day 09 – Moscow                      ( B )
Pushkin Museum and shopping
 Visit the Pushkin Fine Arts Museum, and its European art collection. We’ll also see  the fancy Okhotny Ryad underground shopping center near the Kremlin (also known as Manezh).  Finally we’ll find some time for last minute shopping of caviar and along Arbat Street for samovars, matrushkas, etc.
 
Options in Moscow: *The Circus, *Riverboat Cruise and night tour, *Folk Show,
 *Yar restaurant and cabaret.
 
Day 10 Moscow – U S A
This morning we transfer to the airport for our flight home arriving in the US the same day.
 
 
NOTE :  Amiri travel is * not responsible * for any optional tours purchased by
               Passengers in Russia
 
 
VISA  REQUIREMENTS
 
VISA TO RUSSIA IS REQUIRED FOR ALL NATIONALITIES
 
Passport (original) with at least 6 months of validity and at least one blank visa page
 
All foreign passports should present their original permanent resident card (Green Card)
 
One additional recent passport photo .
 
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